Salads: Salad is a light
meal - or part of a larger
meal consisting of mixed
vegetables or fruit and
at least one type of leaf
vegetable,
often with a dressing or
sauce, occasionally nuts
and the possibility of meat/fish/cheese
on the side. It is usually
seen as being low in calories,
salt, sugar and fat, but
this isn't necessarily true.

The word "salad"
comes from the French salade
of the same meaning, from
the Latin salata, "salty",
from sal, "salt".